Claimant
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Admiralty Practice. A person authorized and admitted to defend a libel brought in rem against property; thus, for example, thirty hogsheads of sugar.
9 Cranch (U. S.) 191. ' In Old English Law. The plaintiff in ejectment.